The Federal Bureau of Investigation filed a search warrant on July 14 for the van tied to the deadly shooting involving a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Houston. The filing says an FBI special agent saw several plastic bags with white crystal-like substances in plain view inside the vehicle after it was moved to the 6800 block of Canal Street.
Canal Street Warrant Filing
The warrant says searches of the target vehicle could yield evidence of the crimes committed and violations of drug offenses. The FBI said the bags were in the middle of the dash, between the driver and passenger side, and on the passenger floorboard. The agency also said the packaging and appearance of the controlled substance in the van is consistent with methamphetamine.
The filing adds a drug-evidence line to an investigation already centered on a deadly shooting involving an ICE agent. For readers following the case, the warrant is the first documented step in turning the vehicle itself into evidence, not just a piece of the traffic-stop encounter.
Wayside and Navigation
Before the warrant filing, the Department of Homeland Security told the FBI that ICE agents were trying to conduct a traffic stop on the target vehicle. DHS said the vehicle refused to stop and drove over a median in an attempt to flee. Under ICE policy, the officers did not pursue the vehicle, and they later relocated it in the 6800 block of Canal Street.
Videos obtained by ABC13 Houston showed two unmarked vehicles following the van on Wayside at Navigation and then turning onto Canal Street. That sequence sits alongside the ICE account and gives the case a second documented version of how the van moved before the shooting.
Houston ICE shooting
The search warrant focuses on what can now be taken from the van and tested, including whether the material seen in plain view matches methamphetamine. If it does, the vehicle can support both the shooting investigation and any drug-offense case built from what was inside it.
For the people closest to the encounter, the immediate question is no longer only what happened on the street in Houston. It is what the FBI will recover from the van, because that evidence can decide how far the case extends beyond the shooting itself.
